When
digital photography originally came into being, artists thought of them
as the same as copy machines, using scanners to capture old
photographs. But the scanner does much more than a copy machine could
do. It captures depth of field, the feeling of 3 dimensions.

To create these
images, objects were organized on the scanner. The resulting still life
was created in reverse. Requiring that the artist think of what is
under the image rather than what is on top. Keeping the objects in
place is a challenge, but it also gives the images a little randomness
that adds to the final outcome. One is never sure of how it is going to
look until it is actually scanned. Then it can be changed, but it does
not always exactly stay in place. The result is always a surprise.